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WVRA
PO Box #3004
Westville Station
New Haven, CT 06515
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MITCHELL LIBRARY
Board Game Saturdays
New! Board Game Saturdays in January at Mitchell Library! From 2-4pm Adults, teens, kids!
Check HERE for updated weekly events.
Mon 12-8 |Tue 12-6| Wed 10-6 | Thu 10-6 | Fri CLOSED | Sat 10-5 | Sun CLOSED
Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison Street, 203-946-8117
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THROUGH THE EYES OF THREE
@MITCHELL
We know you will enjoy their small works on paper and talk to them about their experience creating them this past year. Charcoal and oil pastel works.
Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison Library, (203) 946-8117
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REDUCED PRICE 2018 SPRING LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL REGISTRATION
Walter Pop Smith Little League offers baseball instruction, team play and competition for children ages 4-12.
Our program is designed to develop fundamental baseball skills through our instructional program, foster teamwork & sportsmanship throughout our system from T-ball to Major League.
Children progress at their own pace with the assistance of an active volunteer coaching staff.
If you sign up before February 15, 2018; the cost will be $65. If you sign up after February 15, 2018 the cost will be $70. If you sign up after April 1, 2018, the cost will be $75. If you have multiple players, you will automatically get a 10 dollar discount per player at check out!
or contact President Lynair Walker 203-676-3782
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NEW HAVEN YOUTH SOCCER REGISTRATION
New Haven Youth Soccer (NHYS) Is offering Winter Camps REGISTRATION is Officially Open.
COST: $60.00 (NO Financial Aid available for this program)
Age Eligibility is: U8: born 1/1/2010 - 12/31/2011 U10: born 1/1/2008 - 12/31/2009 U12-U14: born 1/1/2004 - 12/31/2007 For more information [email protected]
Schedule and full details HERE.
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CHIP IN A BOTTLE
Small batch confectionery where all items are made in house. Over 100 flavors of chocolates, gelato, and macarons are available. Chip In A Bottle also hosts chocolate creation parties.
Chipinabottle.com
Chip In A Bottle, 837 Whalley Avenue
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STOREFRONT HOURS
Strange-Ways.com
Monday * Closed
Tues-Fri * 11AM-5PM
Sat + Sun * 10AM-4PM
Strange Ways, 910 Whalley Avenue
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912 Whalley Avenue New Haven
Tel: 203-562-5472
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
 January 17, 2018, The New Haven Independent, by David Sepulveda- "In "Aftermath," a new exhibition at Fred Giampietro Gallery, a painter's passion is on full display in the conflict images of New Haven artist John Keefer, whose work is being shown with the sculptural creations of artist Kurt Steger - found object-construction hybrids that bear compelling messages in content and in their physical composition. The show runs through Feb. 3. An artists' reception was held on Jan. 6 at the Chapel Street gallery, drawing a sizable crowd despite the prevailing chill and challenging conditions left in the wake of the bomb cyclone several days earlier. Columns of thick, black smoke rise like fear-inducing specters over a low-slung middle east landscape in "Airstrike," the smallest of John Keefer's paintings. The work hangs in the gallery window and signals not only a theme of his series, but suggests some discordance as one views the beauty of magnificently rendered paintings at the service of haunting imagery and content..." Click HERE to comment and read full article.
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TONIGHT!
Thursday, January 18, 7:30pm-8:30pm
CLUB FUSION WITH LUIS ANTONIO
Come get your groove on in this all-out dance party taught in a welcoming follow-along style.
Class begins with a warm-up and conditioning, building to a high-energy dance jam that will leave you sweaty, happy and energized.
No dance training necessary. Walk-ins welcome.
$20 per class.
RSVP
Alisa's House of Salsa, 912 Whalley Avenue
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Saturday, January 20, 10:00am + 2:00pm
NHSO FREE FAMILY CONCERT: BABAR THE ELEPHANT
NHSO pianist William Braun plays Francis Poulenc's whimsical L'Histoire de Babar while Really Inventive Stuff's vaudeville actor, Michael Boudewyns, returns to the NHSO stage to narrate the tale about the King of the Elephants.
NHSO Family concerts are free of charge.
Additional dates:
February 17, 10:00am +2:00pm
March 3, 10:00am + 2:00pm
Davis Street School, 35 Davis Street
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Sunday, January 21, 5:00pm
HANIFA NAYO WASHINGTON @THE RANGE
Join healing songtress Hanifa Nayo Washington on a journey of radical healing through song. You will be invited to learn and sing a song for each energy center. Hanifa will also gently lead you to experience authentic connection, sacred play, and deep release for an energetic whole system tune up! Have a song of liberation to lead/share? YOU will be invited to share as well! Each gathering is bookended by a silent meditation. Potluck to follow.
SUGGESTED $10 at the door
PAY WHAT YOU CAN- NO ONE TURNED AWAY POTLUCK + BYOB ALL AGES Download the album at
www.musicofhanifa.com
The Range @Lotta Studio, 911 Whalley Avenue
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Through February 11
MARK ST. MARY AND JOAN JACOBSON-ZAMORE @KEHLER LIDDELL GALLERY
Kehler Liddell Gallery presents two new concurrent solo shows: Mark St. Mary, No Longer Noticed Joan Jacobson-Zamore, Once Upon a Dream in Lapland January 11 - February 11.
About the show:
Lost Dog. CD Release Party. Tag Sale. Posted to streetlight poles and utility boxes, notices like these create a collage of various colors, images, and typefaces. Mark St. Mary has spent the past year photographically studying the results of their eventual removal, where the residual adhesives look like a community game of visual Mad Libs®. No Longer Noticed, is an exhibition of the resulting rectilinear patterns, dystopian landscapes, and anthropomorphic forms.
While St. Mary's work unearths a kind of collective subconscious, Joan Jacobson-Zamore presents a series of dreamlike landscapes and scenes in Once Upon a Dream in Lapland. The artist states the concept for the show developed after a trip to Finland, and says the pieces ask us "to suspend our sense of reality for just a moment." Zamore sees her work as a "rekindling of the natural energy around [her] and a waking of the playful or mysterious magic within."
Kehler Liddell, 873 Whalley Ave, (203) 389-9555 |
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Monday, January 22, 7:00pm
FREE SELF MASSAGE WORKSHOP FOR MOMS TO BE @WESTVILLE MASSAGE
"My dream, for moms-to-be, is for you to be as relaxed at home as you are on my table. So, I'm leading a free self-care workshop. I'll teach you self-massage techniques and mom-related stretches to help you feel sooo much more comfortable. You'll learn how you can massage away your prenatal backaches, stiff necks, leg cramps, headaches, and swelling. Besides feeling sooo good, massage is wonderful for reducing stress on weight-bearing joints, encouraging blood and lymph circulation and helping to relax nervous tension. Hurray for massage! I'll also introduce you to the latest version of my Lotusleaf pregnancy sleep system. I'll even bring a prototype for you to try out. I'd love to hear your thoughts regarding its construction, use, and appearance. We'll have tea and healthy snacks and, of course, chocolate will be involved. Dress in comfortable clothes. Space is limited to the first 10 participants."
REGISTER HERE
Westville Massage, 141 West Elm Street
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Wednesday, January 24, 7:00pm
FIRST ARTWALK 21 PLANNING MEETING
Please join us to start the ball rolling on Wednesday, January 24, 7:00pm at Lotta Studio. Artwalk is becoming an adult (21 this year), so we need to make it extra special!
Lotta Studio, 911 Whalley Avenue.
SAVE THE DATE!
ARTWALK 21 FRIDAY, MAY 11+ SATURDAY, MAY 12
We're Looking forward to Artwalk 21! Our vendor applications are now up, click links below:
Artist, Artisans and Crafters Application HERE
Food Vendors Application HERE |
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday January 23, 4:30pm
MITCHELL LIBRARY ARTIST IN CONVERSATION: LISA PETERSON- Click HERE for more info. Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison Street, (203) 946-8117
Thursday, January 25, 7:30-8:30pm
CLUB FUSION- Click HERE for more info. Alisa's House of Salsa, 912 Whalley Avenue
Saturday, January 27, 7:00pm
WINTER CONCERT SERIES @KLG- Click
HERE for more info.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Avenue
Sunday, January 28, 10:00am
LET'S PLAY STOREIS, SONGS, AND ART- Click
HERE for more info.
Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Avenue
Friday, February 2, 3:00- 4:30pm
CHAPEL HAVEN RIBBON CUTTING- Click
HERE for more info.
Chapel Haven, 1040 Whalley Avenue
FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS, VISIT
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